Terran Times 18 - Emerald Envisage
it.”
    He laughed. “I never realized how much jewelry you have. Why did you decide to do this today?”
    “I’ve been thinking for quite awhile that I need to overhaul my stuff and since I’m going to be moving in with you in a few days, I didn’t think you’d like all this stuff cluttering up the place.”
    “I don’t mind, just so I can have you whenever I want you without being interrupted by your roommate. By the way, where is Skye today?” he asked with a mischievous glint in his eye.
    “Working. Ah, you’re wondering if we have time for some down time,” she teased.
    He looked at her and raised his eyebrows in mock shock. “Now why would you say that?”
    “Well, if you help me clean this stuff up, then we can drop it off later. I have a couple of cartons by the bed.”
    Ian quickly began stuffing the items into one of the boxes. “This is pretty,” he said. “You’re keeping it, aren’t you?”
    Lara looked at the necklace dangling from his fingertips. “Oh my, God,” she excitedly said, gently taking it from him. “I haven’t seen this in years. I thought I’d lost it.”
    “Want me to put it on you?”
    “Maybe later,” she said as she placed it in a special compartment in her jewelry box.
    Ian stared at the emerald for a moment. “I’ve never seen a stone sparkle like that. Where’d you get it? The green almost matches your eye color.”
    Lara’s eyes misted. “From my Gramma Kathleen. She gave it to me right before she died. I remember bringing it home, but then it disappeared. I searched for weeks, but couldn’t find it.”
    They finished sorting the rest of the jewelry into keep and discard piles. After all the pieces had been put into either the jewelry box or donation box, Lara was closing the lid of the jewelry box when Ian suddenly grabbed her arm.
    “Look! It’s glowing even with all the other pieces in there.”
    She stared at the necklace. “I remember Gramma Kathleen telling me a story about it. She claimed it had mystical powers.”
    Ian suppressed a smile.
    “I know what you’re thinking…it’s some silly story passed down from a grandmother to her granddaughter.”
    “I have to admit I’ve never seen anything glow like that,” he alluded. “What’s the story behind it?”
    Lara ran a hand through her long red hair. “She told me that she was given the necklace by her grandmother when she lived in Ireland. It was about a year before she met my grandfather. She said it will grant the intended her hidden desire, but it may not be what you think.”
    “What does that mean?”
    “I asked her the same thing.” She smiled. “It will grant your deepest desire even if you aren’t consciously aware of what that desire is.”
    Ian frowned. “That doesn’t make sense.”
    Lara was thoughtful for a moment. “She always had some sayings I never understood, but I think it means there are some things we think we desperately want, but we are really settling for less.”
    “I still don’t get it.”
    She sighed. “Maybe even if I believe I’m perfectly content with what I’ve gotten from life, what was hidden inside will become known to me the minute I put the necklace on.”
    Ian rubbed her shoulder. “I have something that I’d like to hide inside you.” He guided her hand to his bulging crotch.
    “You have a one-track mind,” she said huskily as his hands slid under her T-shirt and lifted it over her head. She tingled at his touch the same way she had the first time they’d made love six months ago after their third date.
    “Just what I like…no bra.” His mouth came down on her left breast and he gently suckled it before moving to the right one while his hands slid to the waistband of her jeans. He swiftly undid her jeans and guided them down to her ankles.
    She wriggled out of them and helped him pull off his shirt. She ran her hands over his smooth chest while his hands moved down her long legs and rested between her thighs. He gently nudged her

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